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Information Fusion Process Design Issues for Hard and Soft Information: Developing an Initial Prototype

verfasst von : James Llinas

Erschienen in: Intelligent Methods for Cyber Warfare

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The Data and Information Fusion (DIF) process can be argued to have three main functions: Common Referencing (CR) (also known as “Alignment”), Data Association (DA), and State Estimation, as shown in Fig. 1.

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Fußnoten
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The Army’s DCGS-A future system requirements for example include user-modifiable DA capabilities.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Information Fusion Process Design Issues for Hard and Soft Information: Developing an Initial Prototype
verfasst von
James Llinas
Copyright-Jahr
2015
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08624-8_6